Liu Yuxi (772-842), whose courtesy name was Mengde, was from Luoyang, Henan. He claimed that he was "originally in Xingshang, and his native place is in Luoyang" and that he was from Zhongshan. The first was Liu Sheng, Prince Jing of Zhongshan. A writer and philosopher of the Tang Dynasty, he was known as the "poetry hero".
In the ninth year of Zhenyuan (793), Liu Yuxi became a Jinshi. He first served as the record office in the shogunate of Du You, the military governor of Huainan, and was highly regarded by Du You. Later, he entered the court from Du You and served as the supervisory censor.
At the end of Zhenyuan, Liu Zongyuan, Chen Jian, Han Ye and others made friends with Wang Shuwen and formed a political group headed by Wang Shuwen. Later, he successively served as Sima of Langzhou, governor of Lianzhou, governor of Kuizhou, governor of Hezhou, doctor of host and guest, doctor of the Ministry of Rites, and governor of Suzhou. In Huichang, the school's Minister of Etiquette was inspected. When he died at the age of seventy, he presented it to the Minister of Hubu.
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Literary achievements of Liu Yuxi:
1. Poetry
Liu Yuxi’s landscape poems changed the Dali and Zhen Dynasties The poets of the Yuan Dynasty had a narrow and bleak style, but they often wrote an open scene that was half virtual and half real, beyond the actual distance of space, such as "The clouds on the distant mountains under the water are like snow, and the grass on the flat shore beside the bridge is like smoke" ("Wagyu"). "Xianggong visited Nanzhuang and gave a fable to Lotte after getting drunk"), "The wild grass is fragrant on the red brocade ground, and the gossamers are confusing the blue sky" ("Spring Day Letters to Dongluobai Twenty-two Yang Baer Concubine").
2. Ci and Fu
In addition to poetry and essays, Liu Yuxi’s Ci and Fu creations are also an important link that cannot be ignored in the history of Ci and Fu in the Tang Dynasty, and even in the entire history of Ci and Fu. Eleven chapters are not too small compared with the number of poems and poems preserved by various schools in the Tang Dynasty. In his book "History of Fu", Ma Jigao evaluated the writers of Ci and Fu in the Mid-Tang Dynasty, ranking Liu Zongyuan first, followed by Han Yu and Liu Yuxi, and comparing Liu Zongyuan's Ci and Fu with Qu Yuan, which can be seen from this.
3. Argumentative essays
Liu Yuxi’s essays have the greatest achievement in expository essays. The first is thematic papers, covering philosophy, politics, medicine, calligraphy, calligraphy, etc. Philosophical treatises such as "Treatise on Heaven" discussed the materiality of heaven, pointed out the view that heaven and man "compete with each other" and "return to each other for mutual benefit", and analyzed the society in which "Theory of Destiny" emerged based on the scientific level at that time. The origin has a certain position in the history of the development of materialist thought.
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